aSister - Scheduling for homeless women with special needs

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3825-3830

  Gupta, Kshitij ^a   Vaz, Nigel Savio ^b   Joshi, Adwait ^b   McAtee, Jamie Allison ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Pregnancy; Scheduling; Substance abuse; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBSTETRICS; SCHEDULING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

CELL PHONES; DAILY SCHEDULES; HOMELESSNESS; NUTRITIONAL INFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; SPECIAL NEEDS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSES; SYSTEM USES; TEXT MESSAGES; TEXT MESSAGING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049168676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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